The size difference is getting obsured.

Back then, you use to get a 7 gig. storage on an 8 gig iPod Touch. Now it is 6.5 gig. S*** Apple, start advertising the real space, tell us that the ipods have 7 gig. so we expect 6.5 gig of real storage.

Apple advertises it as 8 gb because that is the size of the flash memory, they just don't tell you that the OS takes up a portion of that 8 gb, but if you're smart you will figure that out. and the reason there is less space is because they keep adding significant new features to iOS so the firmware updates become much larger.

Apple advertises it as 8 gb because that is the size of the flash memory, they just don't tell you that the OS takes up a portion of that 8 gb, but if you're smart you will figure that out. and the reason there is less space is because they keep adding significant new features to iOS so the firmware updates become much larger.

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This space is represent by the other space on iTunes, not in the dead space I see on my device.